One of the most radical developments in the mobile phone industry was revealed during the GSMA Macau show last month, with Bharti Airtel CEO Manoj Kohli saying that the operator has literally outsourced everything except the marketing of services. Faced with limited disposable income from India’s population, Bharti Airtel has had to develop a new [...]

The proliferation of video and other forms of rich media is changing the nature of networks today, a trend that calls for a new generation of equipment and technologies at the network level, says Cisco. The company announced at its C-Scape annual analysts briefing event yesterday, what it calls its medianet strategy, which will provide [...]

The emergence of cloud and grid computing across the globe is giving birth to a new business, one that registered and connects massive networks of computing resources with organizations that require those resources. In an article published by International Science Grid This Week, author Danielle Venton at EGEE (Enabling Grids for E-Science), an European Commission [...]

Putting servers inside shipping containers is a trend that is gaining momentum in the industry with many of the leading infrastructure operators and providers, including Google, IBM, HP and Sun now leveraging the concept to drive efficiency and flexibility of data centres. Now, Microsoft, which has already deployed a date centre in Chicago using the [...]

By Petroc Wilton, CommsDay New research has warned that increasing demands for broadband capacity will lead to surging energy requirements, threatening to choke internet speeds. The internet power consumption model developed by the University of Melbourne also suggested that the situation can be averted – but only if industry and governments begin to act now. [...]